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English

Etymology

From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippj? (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”). Cognate with West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Norwegian leppe (“lip”), Latin labium (“lip”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?p, IPA^(key): /l?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

lip (countable and uncountable, plural lips)

2. (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.

   Synonym: labium

3. (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.

   Synonym: labium
4. (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.

   Synonyms: edge, rim, spout

5. (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.

   Synonyms: backchat, cheek (informal), impudence, rudeness
6. The edge of a high spot of land.
   • 1894, David Livingstone, A Popular Account of Dr Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries, Chapter VII

   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 12
7. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
8. (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
9. (botany) The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.
10. (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
11. (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.

Meronyms

• (fleshy protrusion): philtrum, Cupid's bow, vermilion, commissure

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lip (third-person singular simple present lips, present participle lipping, simple past and past participle lipped)

1. (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene 5,^[1]

     […] a hand that kings

     Have lipp’d and trembled kissing.

   • 1826, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, “Josephine” in The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 16, No. 63, March 1826, p. 308,^[2]

     Our love was like the bright snow-flakes,

     Which melt before you pass,

     Or the bubble on the wine which breaks

     Before you lip the glass;

   • 1901, Robert W. Chambers, Cardigan, New York: Harper, 1902, Chapter 9, p. 130,^[3]

     Once […] at dawn, I heard a bull-moose lipping tree-buds, and lay still in my blanket while the huge beast wandered past, crack! crash! and slop! slop!through the creek […]

   • 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, New York: Vintage, 1956, “June Second 1910,” p. 144,^[4]

     […] in a quick swirl the trout lipped a fly beneath the surface with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut.

2. (transitive, figuratively) (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
   • 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man, New York: Viking, p. 405,^[5]

     He moved the boat onward very slowly, lipping the glossy surface delicately with the light oars.

3. (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
   • 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Tragedy of the Korosko, London: Smith, Elder & Co., Chapter 10, p. 324,^[6]

     It was very soothing and restful up there on the saloon deck, with no sound but the gentle lipping of the water as it rippled against the sides of the steamer.

   • 1922, John Masefield, The Dream, London: Heinemann, p. 9,^[7]

     So on I went, and by my side, it seemed,

     Paced a great bull, kept from me by a brook

     Which lipped the grass about it as it streamed

     Over the flagroots that the grayling shook;

   • 2008, Julie Czerneda, Riders of the Storm, New York: Daw Books, Interlude, p. 406,^[8]

     The mist that lipped against the wall behind him hung overhead like a ceiling, hiding any stars.

4. (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
   • 1903, Robert Barr, Over the Border, London: Isbister, Book 4, Chapter 7, p. 375,^[9]

     Below, the swollen Eden, lipping full from bank to bank, rolled yellow and surly to the sea.

   • 1911, Charles G. D. Roberts, Neighbors Unknown, U.S. edition, New York: Macmillan, “Mothers of the North,” p. 256,^[10]

     The rest of the herd were grouped so close to the water’s edge that from time to time a lazy, leaden-green swell would come lipping up and splash them.

   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, Chapter Twenty-Two, p. 410,^[11]

     The sun lipped over the mountain by now, shone on the corrugated-iron roofs of the five sanitary units, shone on the gray tents and on the swept ground of the streets between the tents.

   • 1973, Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills, New York: William Morrow, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 26,^[12]

     Above the spring the little statue of the god Myrddin, he of the winged spaces of the air, stared from between the ferns. Beneath his cracked wooden feet the water bubbled and dripped into the stone basin, lipping over into the grass below.

5. (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
   • 1894, Fiona Macleod, Pharais, Derby, Chapter 4, p. 88,^[13]

     […] old Macrae, of Adrfeulan Farm near by, had caused rude steps to be cut in the funnel-like hollow rising sheer up from the sloping ledge that lipped the chasm and reached the summit of the scaur.

   • 1920, W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Chapter 9, p. 242,^[14]

     It was a tiny stone house whose front window lipped the passing sidewalk where ever tramped the feet of black soldiers marching home.

   • 1924, James Oliver Curwood, A Gentleman of Courage, New York: Cosmopolitan, Chapter 3, p. 36,^[15]

     The woman had slipped to the very edge of the rock—the edge that lipped the fury of the Pit. She was half over. And she was slipping—slipping....

6. (transitive) To utter verbally.
   • 1818, John Keats, Endymion, London: Taylor & Hessey, Book I, lines 964-965, p. 48,^[16]

     Salt tears were coming, when I heard my name

     Most fondly lipp’d […]

7. (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
   • 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, Chapter 46,^[17]

     “Ah, I thought my memory didn’t deceive me!” he lipped silently.

   • 1980, Cyril Dabydeen, “Mammita’s Garden Cove” in Caribbean New Wave: Contemporary Short Stories, London: Heinemann, 1990, p. 65,^[18]

     And as he read, lipping the words, he thought of his own boyhood […]

8. (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
   • 1910, Fred M. White, “A Record Round,” The Windsor Magazine, March 1910,^[19]

     “I shall find the ball to the left of a patch of sword grass near the hole,” he said. “My second will lip the hole, I know it as well as if I could see the whole thing.”

   • 1999, J. M. Gregson, Malice Aforethough, Sutton: Severn House, Chapter Nine, p. 112,^[20]

     Lambert just missed his three; his putt lipped the hole before finishing two feet past it.

9. (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.

Translations

Anagrams

• LPI, PIL

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch lip, from Middle Dutch leppe, with influence of Middle Low German lippe, from Old Dutch leppa, from Proto-West Germanic *lippj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?p/

Noun

lip (plural lippe, diminutive lippie)

1. lip (part of the mouth)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch leppe, with influence of Middle Low German lippe, from Old Dutch leppa, from Proto-West Germanic *lippj?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?p/
• Hyphenation: lip
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

lip f (plural lippen, diminutive lipje n)

1. lip (part of the mouth)
2. lip (of a container)

Related terms

• lipklank
• liplezen
• lippen
• lippendienst
• lippenrood
• lippenstift
• lipvis
• loslippig
• bovenlip
• onderlip
• schaamlip

Descendants

• Afrikaans: lip

Anagrams

• pil

Gallo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lip ? (plural lips)

1. lip

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l??p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lip/, [l?ip]

Noun

lip m (diminutive lipk)

1. glue, birdlime

Declension

Derived terms

• lipa?

Verb

lip

1. second-person singular imperative of lipa?

Alternative forms

• lipaj

Further reading

• lip in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• lip in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Min Nan

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?ip/

Noun

lip f

1. genitive plural of lipa

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ekavian): l?p
• (Ijekavian): lij?p

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?p?.

Adjective

lip (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) nice, pretty
   • 1375, N.N., Muka svete Margarite (transribed from Glagolitic original):

     Pasite se, ovce mile,

     sve ste lipe, sve ste bile

   • 1501, Marko Maruli?, Judita:

     Tad se us?udiše svi, vidiv Juditu,

     toko lipa biše i u takovu svitu.

   • 1759, Antun Kanižli?, Sveta Rožalija:

     Ovog zaru?nika, lipa, mila, sri?na,

     imati jest dika, sri?a, radost vi?na.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English leaf

Noun

lip

1. leaf

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæp/, [k?æp]
• Hyphenation: cap
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

From Middle English cappe, from Old English cæppe, from Late Latin cappa. Doublet of cape, chape, and cope.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

1. A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:headwear

2. A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
3. An academic mortarboard.
4. A protective cover or seal.

5. A crown for covering a tooth.

6. The summit of a mountain, etc.

7. An artificial upper limit or ceiling.

   Antonym: floor

8. The top part of a mushroom.
9. (toy) A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.

10. A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.

11. (slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
    • 2001, Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon

      Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?

12. (slang) A lie; a liar. Common in the phrase no cap, meaning truthful.
13. (sports) A place on a national team; an international appearance.
14. (obsolete) The top, or uppermost part; the chief.
15. (obsolete) A respectful uncovering of the head.
16. (zoology) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
17. (architecture) The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.

18. Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
19. (nautical) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
20. (geometry) A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
21. A large size of writing paper.

22. (African-American Vernacular) A lie or exaggeration.

Derived terms

• (head covering): baseball cap, bathing cap, cloth cap, cunt cap, dunsel cap, swim cap, swimming cap, thinking cap
• (protective cover or seal): crown cap, filler cap
• (artificial upper limit): interest rate cap
• (small amount of explosive used as detonator): percussion cap, pop a cap in someone's ass
• (something covering the top or end of a thing): ice cap, kneecap
• (head): fuddlecap, madcap
• (toy): cap gun, cap pistol

Translations

See also

• lid
• set one's cap at

Verb

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

1. (transitive) To cover or seal with a cap.
2. (transitive) To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
3. (transitive) To lie over or on top of something.
4. (transitive) To surpass or outdo.
5. (transitive) To set an upper limit on something.

6. (transitive) To make something even more wonderful at the end.

7. (transitive, cricket) To select a player to play for a specified side.
8. (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a firearm.

9. (intransitive, slang) To lie.
10. (transitive, sports) To select to play for the national team.

11. (transitive, obsolete) To salute by uncovering the head respectfully.
12. To deprive of a cap.
13. (African-American Vernacular) To tell a lie.

Derived terms

• uncap

Translations

Etymology 2

From capitalization, by shortening.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

1. (finance) Capitalization.

Derived terms

• market cap

Etymology 3

From capital, by shortening.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

1. (informal) An uppercase or capital letter.

Translations

Verb

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

1. (transitive, informal) To convert text to uppercase.

Etymology 4

From capacitor, by shortening.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

1. (electronics) capacitor

   Parasitic caps.

Etymology 5

Shortening of capture.

Noun

cap (plural caps)

1. (colloquial) A recording or screenshot.

   Anyone have a cap of the games last night?

Verb

cap (third-person singular simple present caps, present participle capping, simple past and past participle capped)

1. (transitive) To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.

Etymology 6

Clipping of capsule

Noun

cap (plural caps)

1. (slang) A capsule of a drug.
   • 2012, Alex Wyndham Baker, Cursive

     Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.

Derived terms

• cap up

Etymology 7

Scots [Term?], probably from Old English copp (“a cup”).

Noun

cap (plural caps)

1. (obsolete) A wooden drinking-bowl with two handles.

Anagrams

• ACP, APC, CPA, PAC, PCA, Pac, Pac.

Aromanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput. Plural form capiti from Latin capita. Compare Romanian cap.

Noun

cap n (plural capiti/capite)

1. head

Derived terms

• cãpic
• cãpos

Related terms

See also

• capã

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kap/
• Rhymes: -ap

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan cap, from Vulgar Latin capus (“head, chief”), from Latin caput (“head, etc.”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-. Compare also French personne (which can mean either "person" or "nobody").

Noun

cap m (plural caps)

1. (anatomy) head
2. boss, chief, leader

3. cape (piece of land)
4. (heraldry) chief
5. end

Derived terms

Determiner

cap (indeclinable)

1. no, not any (usually with no or other negative particle)
2. any (in questions and suppositions)

Pronoun

cap

1. none, not one (usually with no or other negative particle), example no n'hi ha cap de maduixa ("there is not any strawberry flavoured one")
2. anyone, (in questions and suppositions), example que en falta cap? ("is there anyone missing?")

Preposition

cap

1. towards, to

Derived terms

• cap a
• capdamunt
• capdavall
• capdavant

Related terms

• acabar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

cap

1. third-person singular present indicative form of cabre
2. second-person singular imperative form of cabre

Further reading

• “cap” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cap” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cap” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cap” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan cap, from Latin caput. Doublet of chef.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kap/

Noun

cap m (plural caps)

1. (geography) cape
2. (archaic) head
3. (nautical) heading
4. (figuratively) goal, direction, course

   Synonym: cible

5. (Quebec, geography) cap (summit of a mountain)

Derived terms

• cap glacé
• de pied en cap

Further reading

• “cap” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• PAC

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??ap]
• Hyphenation: cap

Etymology 1

• Ultimately from Indo-Aryan. Compare Hindi ??? (ch?p), Gujarati ??? (ch?p), Bengali ??? (chap), all meaning stamp, seal.
• Probably become Chinese ? (zhá, “letter, brief note”) through phono-semantic matching.

Noun

cap (first-person possessive capku, second-person possessive capmu, third-person possessive capnya)

1. seal, stamp.

   Synonyms: stempel, tera

2. record.

   Synonym: rekaman

3. printing.

   Synonyms: cetak, cetakan

4. trademark.

   Synonyms: merk dagang, etiket

5. (figuratively) characteristic.

   Synonyms: ciri, sifat

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

cap (first-person possessive capku, second-person possessive capmu, third-person possessive capnya)

1. sound of tongue smacking

   Synonym: kecap

Further reading

• “cap” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??ap/, /t??ap/

Classifier

cap

1. Classifier for fruit.

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[11], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Middle English

Noun

cap

1. Alternative form of cappe

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan cap.

Noun

cap m (plural caps)

1. head
   • 1369-1400, Jean Froissart, Chroniques

     Armez de pié en cap

     Armed from head to toe

Descendants

• French: cap
• ? English: cape

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan cap, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kap/

Noun

cap m (plural caps)

1. head (the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs)
2. head (leader, chief, mastermind)
3. cape, headland

Derived terms

• cap d'estat

Related terms

• acabar

Polish

Etymology

From Romanian ?ap, itself possibly from Albanian cjap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?sap/

Noun

cap m anim

1. billy-goat
2. buck (male of an antlered animal)

Declension

Derived terms

• capi?

Verb

cap

1. second-person singular imperative of capi?

Further reading

• cap in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• cap in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-. Plural form capete from Latin capita. Compare the doublet ?ef, borrowed from French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kap/

Noun

cap n (plural capete)

1. head

Declension

Derived terms

• c?petenie
• c?pos
• c?pu??

Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French cap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kap/

Noun

cap n (plural capuri)

1. cape (headland)

Declension

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?sap/

Noun

cap m (genitive singular capa, nominative plural capy, genitive plural capov), declension pattern chlap for singular, dub for plural

1. a male goat

Declension

Derived terms

• capí

See also

• koza f

Further reading

• cap in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk